A WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON TUESDAY.

TUESDAY 23^rd/ JANUARY 2018.

I was up early, again, this morning to see little princes ‘ Reina’ back with us for day here in ‘ Doggy World Heaven’ – she shot upstairs and joined us for a little lie in, she’s back tomorrow for the last time this week, ‘ Charlie’ was fast asleep on one of the settees until we all got up, he’s being collected later tomorrow, after a quick freshen up we went out with him for his first walk of the day, around the bottom of the village, Brenda called into the local sub-post office to post a ‘special’ birthday card, watch out it could be you?!

PS; ‘ Scruffy’ is back with us for the night as Rose has to go back into Hospital in the morning for a check up.

When we returned we had our favourite toasted ‘ Crispy Smoked Bacon Butties’ – open on brown for Brenda, smothered in ‘HP’ Brown sauce with mugs of strong ‘ PG Tips ‘


See below ' Spain ' today ! 

We have another glorious day down here on the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ this morning, the sun broke through earlier and the sky has cleared and in bright blue, there is no breeze so by lunchtime it’s due to reach 19/20 degs+ again, it’s rather pleasant, to say the least, in the sunshine its warm, getting hotter by the minute, over the next few days into the weekend it’s going to be a little cooler, dropping down to 14/15 degs, it’s staying dry and sunny, next week is now also looking the same on the forecast, for now, watch this space.

See below some pictures of the sunrise over the Mediterranean this morning and the beach down in Sabinillas later.

At lunchtime we went along to ' Bar Castillo' - with some difficulty, as the Contractor's workmen were digging up the pavement outside the Town Hall, after a little detour, we arrived for a nice cool drink and a chat/gossip with Juan.

This evening for our supper we are having ‘ Grilled Gammon Steaks ‘ topped with seared Pineapple Rings and ‘ Campo’ Fried Eggs! Garden Peas & twice-cooked ‘ Chips’ on the side, with more ‘HP’ Brown sauce!! Tomorrow I’m going to make one of our favourite ‘ comfort’ meals; ‘Braised Steak with Mushrooms & Onions ‘ with Brenda’s famous ‘ Mashed Potato’ on the side, I will be using sliced ‘Entrecote Steak’ and the ‘ Vegetable Chef’ will no doubt be producing a selection of fresh local vegetables, watch this space.

One bit of sad news this morning is that back in Colwyn Bay, in North Wales, the Council have finally started the demolition of the old Pier, after many years of various organizations trying to save it, see below a picture of the Pier, as it faces the end of it’s history.

Meanwhile up in sunny Mojacar, our dear friend Tim will no doubt be making plans for Thea’s 60^th Birthday celebrations at the end of the month. On his 60^th Birthday, just before we left on our travels, we arranged for a party of his friends (16 of us!) to go to Budapest for a long weekend, the highlight being the seven course gourmet meal at the famous “ Gundel “ Restaurant –  with ‘ Venison ‘ for the main course, with all the accompanying wines, including the World famous ‘ Egri Bikaver, Bulls Blood ‘ and with the dessert the classic White dessert wine ‘ Tokaji’ -  when I came to pay the bill it was the largest figures that I’ve ever seen as the Hungarian currency, the ‘Forint’ has lots of ‘0s’ in it!!

See the restaurant below;

To get to the restaurant from our  ***** Hotel by the side of the Danube  we went on the World famous ‘ Budapest Metro ‘ – it’s the oldest electrified underground in Europe and the second-oldest in the World!

See below;

Last night before supper we watch the new series of ‘Great American Railway Journeys’ with Michael Portillo as he travels from Boston to end up in Toronto, later after supper we caught the next two-part episodes of ‘ Silent Witness ‘ as the team from the forensic pathology department joined forces, awkwardly, with the US Embassy, the FBI & the CIA after the murder of a diplomat, found posed on a bench after being shot in the road, then a lady doctor was found in a ballroom of a hotel in a similar pose, finally the new ‘ love interest’ of the main character played by Emilia Fox, a senior diplomat at the Embassy, is kidnapped, after their first night of passion! Watch this space.

Thoughts for the Day; ,See above.

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